When, if ever, can facebook be taken serious?
Members of the USC football team created a facebook group last month named White Nation, an apparent inside joke that originated when a black teammate jokingly refered to his white constituents as the "White Nation". So here already, it stems from a joke. The group posted a picture of a black baby in handcuffs along with the caption "arrest black babies before they become criminals." This group led to an uproar on campus' online facebook community with some calling for the group to be immediotly disbanded and a full apology be given.
This is a great overreaction. It's Facebook! Facebook is a joke to begin with. The most serious thing I have ever seen addressed on the site was an online apology from some girl to all her friends for being too drunk the night before. We can't ignor that race is still a huge problem in this country, but Facebook is not the place to express any views (remember the failed attempt to get kids to support certain candidates before the last election on Facebook?). I am a member of 29 groups on facebook, including some serious ones where serious issues are discussed such as: "Feldman's of the World Unite!", "I Fucking Hate People Who Fucking Hate Seinfeld" and the one that I created to celebrate a great mediocre and forgetable Red Sox player that I really liked in the "Brian Daubach Appreciation Club". Facebook is just not a place to be politically correct. It's a place to have fun and celebrate inside jokes.
http://media.www.dailytrojan.com/media/storage/paper679/news/2007/03/08/News/Facebook.Group.Lands.Usc.Football.Player.In.Hot.Water-2764591.shtml
This is a great overreaction. It's Facebook! Facebook is a joke to begin with. The most serious thing I have ever seen addressed on the site was an online apology from some girl to all her friends for being too drunk the night before. We can't ignor that race is still a huge problem in this country, but Facebook is not the place to express any views (remember the failed attempt to get kids to support certain candidates before the last election on Facebook?). I am a member of 29 groups on facebook, including some serious ones where serious issues are discussed such as: "Feldman's of the World Unite!", "I Fucking Hate People Who Fucking Hate Seinfeld" and the one that I created to celebrate a great mediocre and forgetable Red Sox player that I really liked in the "Brian Daubach Appreciation Club". Facebook is just not a place to be politically correct. It's a place to have fun and celebrate inside jokes.
http://media.www.dailytrojan.com/media/storage/paper679/news/2007/03/08/News/Facebook.Group.Lands.Usc.Football.Player.In.Hot.Water-2764591.shtml
posted by KFeld at 2:41 PM
1 Comments:
Hmmmm. As a public medium, Facebook can reach a vast amount of people. Despite being an inside joke, even if no malice were intended, the creators of that site couldn't have figured that no one would be insulted. I'm not sure if race is something to joke around with...any outsider would look at that club in a superficial manner and take offense.
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